Heroes as great have died, and yet shall fall. -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -

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• The day shall come, that great avenging day Which Troy's proud glories in the dust shall lay,
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• Yet while my Hector still survives, I see My father,
  mother, brethren, all, in thee. -- Alexander Pope...